Category: Teaching

June 24, 2024

Planning for Post-Assessments: So…What did they Learn?

Reading Time: 4 minutes “It’s Not What We Teach; It’s What They Learn” – Alfie Kohn Wondering what students have learned in the lesson you’ve just delivered? Have students...

Categories Assessing Learning/Giving Feedback/Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching

June 24, 2024

Ready, Set, Teach! Navigating pre-class jitters and set-up

Reading Time: 3 minutes You’ve got your lesson planned, your water bottle filled, and your slides ready, but still, you’ve got butterflies in your stomach as you approach the...

Categories Class Management/In-person/Reflective Practice/Teaching

June 18, 2024

Starting Small with SoTL

Reading Time: 4 minutes Attribution for photo by David Iskander on Unsplash Transform Your Classroom into a Learning Lab Opportunities for SoTL exist everywhere in the educational spaces in...

Categories Teaching

June 13, 2024

“So, what do you think?” Using Think-Pair-Share to Engage ALL Students

Reading Time: 4 minutes One of the simplest ways to engage your students is the tried-and-tested teaching strategy called ‘Think-Pair-Share’.  If you are newer to teaching, then this should...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Collaboration/Group Work/Teaching

May 30, 2024

AI-Adapting Activities and Assesments: Part 2 of 2

Reading Time: 7 minutes Ideas for adapting activities and assessments for the conditional or open use of AI

Categories AI/AI and Assessment/Teaching

May 28, 2024

Heart emoji, crying face emoji: A reflection on the emotional facets of teaching

Reading Time: 5 minutes In collaboration with Sara Kafashan  This past winter semester, I experienced a familiar feeling: I found myself getting frustrated with students repeatedly emailing me for...

Categories AI and Assessment/Communicating With Students/Reflective Practice/Teaching

May 28, 2024

Content-Based Bridge-Ins

Reading Time: 9 minutes Many of you are likely already familiar with the BOPPPS framework for lesson planning. While BOPPPS is not the only way to plan a lesson...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching

May 22, 2024

Collaborative Online Intercultural Learning (COIL): Public Relations

Reading Time: 3 minutes Conestoga College has embarked on its pilot launch Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) as an international virtual exchange program for students. In this kind of virtual exchange,...

Categories COIL/Faculty Stories/Intercultural Awareness/Teaching

May 22, 2024

What Does it Mean to be an Intercultural Educator?

Reading Time: 3 minutes Diversity is a fact of life in any Canadian postsecondary setting.  In addition to diversity in such areas as age, gender, and educational background, Conestoga...

Categories Intercultural Awareness/Reflective Practice/Teaching/Teaching International Students

May 22, 2024

Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL): Intercultural Prototypical Attributes for Effective Leadership

Reading Time: 3 minutes Conestoga College has embarked on its pilot launch Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) as an international virtual exchange program for students. In this kind of...

Categories COIL/Faculty Stories/Teaching